Main fields

Development Economics, Evaluation of Public Policies, Network Economics, Social norms, Firms and informality

Publications

• "The speed of justice" (with Florence Kondylis). 2023. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 105 (3): 596–613.

  • Summary: VoxDev column (2018).

• "Social status and egalitarianism in non-lineage-based, agrarian communities in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of funeral attendance " (with Abigail Barr). Forthcoming. Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Working papers

• "Fraud detection under limited state capacity: Experimental evidence from Senegal" (with Léo Czajka and Bassirou Sarr). CSEF Working paper 731.

• "The magic of the game: Experimental evidence on sports betting behavior" (with Martin Chegere, Paolo Falco, Marco Nieddu, Lorenzo Pandolfi). CSEF Working Paper 655.

• "Know-how and know-who: Effects of a randomized training on network changes between small urban entrepreneurs".  CSEF Working Paper 622.

Policy papers

• "Data management at the Senegalese Tax Authority: Insights from a long-term research collaboration" (with Léo Czajka, Florence Kondylis, and Bassirou Sarr). 2022. African Tax Administration Paper 27, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies.

Ongoing projects

• "Firms' supply chain networks and tax compliance" (with Florence Kondylis, Bassirou Sarr and Léo Czajka). (multi-year project, 2nd RCT ongoing)

• "Fostering official trade" (with Paolo Falco and Eleanor Wiseman). (RCT ongoing) 

• "Social learning or spillovers - Indirect effects of technical and business skills training for small entrepreneurs" (with Francisco Campos, Obert Pimhidzai, Markus Goldstein and Bilal Zia).

• "Emerging egalitarian norms" (with Abigail Barr).

Ongoing grants

• PRIN PNRR 2022: Firm Networks and Sustainable Development, Principal Investigator, [Italian Government grant program for Research Projects of National Interest], Nov 2023-Nov 2025.